The discovery of new music, e.g. song tracks and artists, is a central aspect of music consumption. In order to assist users in this task, several mechanisms have been proposed to incorporate novelty awareness into music recommender systems. In this paper, we complement these efforts by investigating how the music preferences of users are affected by two different aspects of novel artists, name...

'Every work of art is an uncommitted crime' Adorno (1951). Cited in Julius (2002). Given the putative relationship between creativity and schizotypy/psychoticism, the current study set out to investigate differences in scores on a range of personality and creativity measures between visual artists and non-artists. Results found that the visual artists group scored higher on measures of positive...

We introduce inverted stippling , a method to mimic an inversion technique used by artists when performing stippling. To this end, we extend Linde-Buzo-Gray (LBG) multi-class LBG (MLBG) with multiple layers. MLBG couples the layers stochastically optimize for per-layer and overall blue-noise properties. propose stipple-based filling generate solid color backgrounds inverting areas. Our experime...

abstract since ancient time clothes has been integrated into human life, though this is the 1960s and after when clothes have been described as an artistic concept. nowadays, clothes in addition to their traditional functions including protection, coverage and beauty have found communicative function as well. since 1960s, artists have benefited from such a powerful tool presenting their desired...